VACUOUS + GNASCH + CREMULATION (FUEL, CARDIFF)

Vacuous (London)
Atmospheric Death Metal

With two guitarists and a bassist, there’s also no shortage of riffs. They alternately ascend and descend, and chords jar discordantly as all good disso-death chords should. Jabbing at your throat (“Body of Punishment”) or crawling menacingly through thick mud (“Stigmata Scourge”). Those aforementioned unintelligible vocals (Jo Chen) don’t stick to one style either—except the horrible1 one. Sometimes the lowest of gutturals; sometimes a blackened shriek, a snarl, or a near-shout. Always br00tal. All these elements make for a pretty solid, incredibly unfriendly death metal record with much to commend it.  - AngryMetalGuy